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As a single man I had two separate convertibles. Mainly because I love convertibles.
First, a 1966 Sunbeam Alpine which had been my father's. I accidentally burned it to the ground along with part of my parents' house in the summer of 1989. I had been driving it since 1986. I am pretty sure my dad bought it because he wanted to feel like Sean Connery in Dr No though that one was Robin's egg blue. I loved that car to distraction, drove it through my first years of university, had it repainted and the engine rebuilt and had just installed a new cloth top before the accident. Which is a long story.
Then a Toyota Corolla of my mom's, a Volkswagen Jetta which was the first car I paid for myself, then my first car in Japan was a 1993 Eunos Roadster aka Mazda Miata, used (8 years old when I bought it). I sold it when I got engaged. It was fun but Osaka isn't friendly to convertibles (lots of standing traffic.) I liked driving through the city at night though. Also it is possible to have sex in that car in the driver's seat with the hardtop attached. I am here to assure you of that, doubtful though it may be.
Since then nothing special. A Suzuki, a Toyota. Currently another Mazda but a CX8 Diesel which is primarily driven by wifey and which is much less my taste but carts the family around well.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
6hr ago
Rome collapsed as landowners farmed their estates with slave labor, and foreign mercenaries were hired for defense. Meanwhile Roman citizens were given bread and circuses.
Three events that took place separately over about four centuries.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
6hr ago
Not to get all Marxist Econ-History-101 on it, but in large part the concept of disability is itself built around the capitalist conceit that the human worker is reducible to a standardized piece of machinery. And like all piece of factory equipment, a non-standard piece of machinery is best discarded, because one can't change factory procedures from standard.
zeke5123a
6hr ago
The issue is a bit less “Will Iran strike Israel with nukes” and more “Will Iran feel more degrees of freedom to attack Israel since an Israel’s response will need to be measured.”
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
6hr ago
However, perhaps I'm frail hearted or something because it does hurt to see so many attack her so viciously, when they clearly have so much hate in their hearts. Perhaps it's Pollyannaish but I wish that we could do our shaming in a more dignified, and less clearly antagonistic way. It seems that most of the people shaming her, from my read at least, clearly enjoy looking down and judging someone harshly, seeing themselves as better than her. From my perspective, that's not just as bad as what she's doing, but still bad.
I generally try to avoid both porn stars and the anti-porn crowd online, because I always have the feeling that a lot of the more aggressive and verbose anti-porn people haven't earned the right to be so angry and so cruel. Which I think is what you're picking up on. Your modal anti-porn crusader on twitter or rat-adjacent spaces doesn't feel, to me, like someone who has lived a traditional morality. They feel like gooners, porn addicts, who out of some sense of sadism or some inferiority complex related to their own inability to stop themselves from masturbating.
If my Great Uncle Charlie wanted to criticize Aella, he would have every right to, but, well, he wouldn't because he would never have any idea who she was. He lived a pious life, and that included managing his media consumption to include only appropriate material. If he had come into contact with Aella, he would have recognized who she was and withdrawn immediately.
The people who bring up Aella constantly in order to abuse her, along with various other e-thots and porn stars, are not withdrawing. They aren't avoiding worldliness. They are the consooooomers of the content produced by e-thots, while also desiring that the e-thots be unhappy.
This is an experience I seem to run into all the time on the internet, the guy who messages me about some porn star who is hosting an enormous gangbang or made a million dollar severing her hymen on live or something, with a long screed about how degenerate this is. And my reaction is always kinda, hey dude I wouldn't even know about it if you hadn't messaged me, why do you even know who she is?
The best thing to do if you don't like Aella's values and think she should have less influence, is to ignore her.
Alas, I've fallen into the trap here.
FistfullOfCrows
6hr ago
Prostitution dumps the sex market, which is also one of the reasons women hate sluts/whores the most.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
6hr ago
How could anyone be surprised by that outcome? What man looking for a wife wants a woman who was a prostitute and doesn’t have remorse for doing it? Like how does he come to trust her to not have sex with random men when he’s not watching her?
Lizzardspawn
6hr ago
That is the thing. You don't do regime change. You do regime removal and let the people sort it themselves.
FistfullOfCrows
6hr ago
The backup singers of the gangbang
It appears that this forum is filled with city slickers in fancy German cars. What cars have you driven on a regular basis? If they were expensive, have you found them to be worth the extra money?
I have driven the following cars on a regular basis.
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2023: 2023 Mitsubishi Mirage (purchased new for 18 k$)
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2019: 2015 Honda Fit (purchased from my mother for 14 k$)
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2017: 2007 Pontiac G6 (borrowed from my father for free)
I have been driven around by my parents in the following cars.
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The aforementioned Fit (mother's) and G6 (father's)
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2013 Honda Civic (mother's)
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2001–2010 Volvo S60 (father's)
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2000–2005 Dodge Neon (mother's)
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1993–1997 Mazda MX-6 (father's; manual)
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1993 Toyota Tercel (mother's)
I have never found fault with these cheap (not including the S60, I guess) cars (other than the Civic's poor rear visibility; I prefer hatchbacks to sedans) or seen any reason to get anything more expensive.
(Note that I purchased the Mirage, not to replace the Fit with it, but so that (1) I could sell the Fit back to my mother, and then (2) she could expunge from our household the Civic that I disliked. Another motive for getting the Mirage was FOMO on a car that was soon to be discontinued in the US market despite obviously being the best car there.)
FistfullOfCrows
6hr ago
that nothing he did in life ever felt as good as being on heroin. Not meeting the love of his life, not getting married, not even the birth of his first child. They all felt good, sure. But man... nothing topped heroin
I can believe it, I've been on the good stuff painkillers after a short stint in the ER. Words fail to describe the profound sense of peace and joy washing over you. Not even sex is that good.
Crowstep
6hr ago
The American identity survives regardless of who makes up our population
I wouldn't call the country splitting into two halves who hate eachother 'surviving'.
Meanwhile Germany, in spite of the political changes you mention is the most politically stable country in the world (I didn't go looking for a list with Germany at the top I swear, I googled 'least partisan countries' and that's what came up).
Germany's form of government may have changed, but it doesn't matter because it has a core ethnic group whose similarity transcends political organisation. Meanwhile in the multiracial proposition nation, everyone hates eachother and can't agree on anything.
sun_the_second
6hr ago
Generally people stop being praised for curiosity by their teen years.
You say that like it's a prescriptive standard and therefore anyone praised for curiosity is being treated like a child. I happen to think curiosity remains valuable beyond teen years, and more than than, since in many people it remains in short supply it should be encouraged.
wayfarer
6hr ago
financial/institutional merger involving two families
yes, and it is still quite distinct from "men trade resources and services for sex"
wayfarer
6hr ago
Are you claiming that in a normal, healthy, average relationship man does 100% of childrearing and woman is there to provide sex?
Or are you claiming that in a normal, healthy, average relationship there are no children?
In a normal, healthy, average relationship, men trade resources and services for sex.
where and when it is supposedly the situation?
AFAIK it was never ever in no location considered the way you claim
In a normal, healthy, average relationship, men trade resources and services for sex.
That is not healthy or average relationship and it is not normal.
Even in the most radically transactional view of relationship this claim is simply wrong.
For start, relations where woman contributes solely sex in exchange of stuff are in fact simply prostitution.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
7hr ago
I'll admit to not being overly familiar with the history of SoS press releases in response to Israeli actions..but this seems like a shift in tone from the Biden regime doesn't it? Rubio offers no praise of Israel, no solemn intonation of our close alliance, no love for our "closest middle eastern ally." It's not even entirely clear that Israel is among the "regional partners" they are in close contact with.
I'll admit to playing Fantasy Trump right now, but this is just about where I'd like the USA to be when something like this happened.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
7hr ago
I see fairly few bicycles in my area, and I have a fear of killing someone, which can be easily allayed by simply taking a minute out of my day and waiting for a really clear spot to pass. If it were a constant problem, I probably couldn't do that.
orthoxerox
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7hr ago
High decouplers vs low decouplers.
"I might have attracted you with spicy stories and explicit pictures, but can we now set my public image aside and discuss my latest serious article?" vs "opinion is invalid: author is a stinky skank".
ControlsFreak
7hr ago
You can pay well-above market rate, they won't do it.
That's not really what "market rate" means. It doesn't really come free-floating, without reference to a population of suppliers/potential suppliers. Yes, there is a MarketRate1, where the set of suppliers/potential suppliers includes everyone who can walk across the border. Yes, MarketRate1 < MarketRate2, where MarketRate2 is with reference to the set of suppliers/potential suppliers who are legally authorized to work in the United States. But if we just lived in World2, there would be no talk about paying "well-above market rate (MarketRate2)", because MarketRate2 would just be the clearing price in World2.
Supply curve slope upwards. Demand curves slope downwards. For there to be no non-zero equilibrium, the supply price at zero quantity supplied must be higher than the demand price at zero quantity demanded. This may be true for some goods (say, anti-matter-powered light bulbs), but it seems highly unlikely that it is the case for food.
Capital_Room
rather dementor-like
7hr ago
As one of "The True Psychos," I'd personally like to thank you for laying this out so clearly and in such detail. AAQC'd.
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
7hr ago
But it's cruise control for cool.
FtttG
7hr ago
This is where I first heard about them (?).
TowardsPanna
7hr ago
I actually heard back from an email I sent to the public transport company. They say there are no tracks near the building in question so there should be no noise.
Guess I'm going to trust that. Perhaps naively. We'll see.
Which IMO leads to anarchy, semi-organised militia, and national / international terrorism. ISIS was 'the people sorting it out themselves'. So was the Taliban and so is al-Queda.
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